A comprehensive introduction to the particular challenges and opportunities of congregational ministry in urban settings.Urban ministry has long been a part of seminary curricula, but a basic and definitive understanding of what students should know as they prepare for congregational ministry in the city has remained elusive. Too often it is assumed that the theological resources developed for ministry in other settings are adequate for urban ministry, but these resources fail to account f...

Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed, domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian S...

Christianity Today's 1995 Books of the YearReasonable, concise, witty and wise, Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli have written an informative and valuable guidebook for anyone looking foranswers to questions of faith and reason. Topics include:faith and reasonthe existence of GodGod's naturehow we know Godcreation and evolutionprovidence and free willmiraclesthe problem of...

" A heroic biography of one of Scotland's legendary leaders, by a British novelist and former literary critic for the London Sunday Times" ( Kirkus).Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England. Its people lived in abject poverty. But on the day he seized the crown, Bruce renewed the fight f...

An essential "one-stop” guide to chemical process design andevaluationThe fifth edition of Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers is a major revision of the popular fourth edition. There are new chapters on process synthesis, computer-aided design, and design of chemical reactors. A traditionally strong feature of the text, economic analysis, has been revamped and updated. Another strength, equipment sizing and cost estimation, is updated and exp...

Sherlock Holmes - Neue Fälle 01: Sherlock Holmes und die ZeitmaschineIn London verschwinden Menschen. Die Nächte verbreiten überall Angst und Schrecken, niemand fühlt sich mehr sicher. Man erzählt sich in den Straßen von Geistern, welche die Menschen entführen. Als Sherlock Holmes durch H. G. Wells einen zurückkehrenden Zeitreisenden aufspürt, vermutet er einen Zusammenhang mit den Morden und ist der grausamen Wahrheit damit bereits sehr nah. Es sind die Morlocks, ...

Unbelievers, doubters and skeptics continue to attack the truths of Christianity. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is the only book that categorizes and summarizes all the major arguments in support of the main Christian beliefs, including key distinctively Catholic doctrines. Also included is a Protestant-friendly treatment of Catholic-Protestant issues. The Catholic answers to Protestant questions show how Catholicism is the fullness of the Christian faith.An expanded, C...

“The most original and probably the most important writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley."—Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Prometheus Rising and other worksPeter Carroll’s classic work has been profound influence on the Western magical world and on the practice of chaos magick in particular. In Liber Null and Psychonaut, Carroll presents an approach to the practice of magic that draws on the foundations of sh...

This edited collection provides deep insights and varied perspectives of innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile the conflicts that have characterized the history of Indigenous people, settlers, and their descendants in Canada. From the opening chapter, the volume contextualizes why Canada is on a reconciliation journey, and how that journey is far from over. It is a multi-disciplinary treatise on decolonization, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation that is a must-read for tho...

Wie besiegt man ein Virus? Was können Online-Praxen? Wer hilft Ärzten, wenn sie nicht weiter wissen? Kann Architektur heilen? Lassen sich Tierversuche durch Chips ersetzen? Wie sieht das Krankenhaus der Zukunft aus? Wozu brauchen wir Schulschwestern? Warum sind in den arabischen Ländern so viele Menschen depressiv? Und wie geht das überhaupt: ein gesundes Leben? Die besten Geschichten aus mehr als 20 Jahren brand eins zu den großen Fragen der Gesundheit, die alle beschäftigen – oder auf di...

La religión tiene dos alas, la razón y el corazón; con esta convicción trabajamos en la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. Resultado de ello es la traducción en español de este Manual de Apologética, como un recurso fundamentalmente intelectual en el camino de la fe. Un libro para aquellas personas que tienen fe pero está cuestionada y tienen dudas. Un libro para aquellas personas que están en la cercanía de lo religioso y se preguntan si podría ser lo suyo. El libro que tienes en las manos...

De oude visser Santiago heeft al vierentachtig dagen geen vis gevangen – de mensen in de haven kijken hem meewarig na. Op de vijfentachtigste dag vaart hij in zijn eentje in een open bootje de zee op, veel verder dan ooit tevoren. Hij is vastberaden, en hij heeft meteen beet: een reusachtige marlijn. Maar zijn strijd tegen de zee, de elementen en zijn eigen aftakeling is nog maar net begonnen.De oude man en de zee is een hoogtepunt in het oeuvre van Ernest Hemingway en een van de b...